Reservoir-stove



(No Model.)

G. H. MATTHEWS.

RESERVOIR STOVE.

No. 327,572. Patented Oct. 6, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. MATTHEWS, OF LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS.

RESERVOIR-STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 327,572, dated October 6, 1885. 'Application filed July l, 1884. Serial No. 136,555. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. MATTHEWS, of Leavenworth, in the county of Leavenworth and State of Kansas, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Reservoir- Stoves, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my improvement in reservoirstoves is to heat the water in the reservoir more rapidly and to a higher temperature than heretofore possible with the stoves as usually made.

The invention consists in a novel arrangement of ues in connection with the ordinary three-flue stove, as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section of a stove with my improvement. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a cross-section on linel :c a: of Fig. l.

The stove shown is of the ordinary square type, provided with back extension, A, that contains the reservoir c. The iiue b from the iirebox c passes between the top plate of the stove and top of the oven to the two down ward flues, d, and side flue, c e, beneath the oven, the latter connecting at the front of the stove with the return-iiuef. This latter flue, f,usually passes up at the back of the oven to the pipe-hole g directly. In place of that I provide an opening, h, in the back plate, t', of the stove and make the back plate with an incline, k, between the two side flues, d, that forms a passage, Z, from the space around the reservoir to the pipehole, so as to compel the products of combustion to pass through the opening h into direct contact with the bottom and sides of the reservoir and thence to passage Z when the damper tis closed.

This construction is much more simple and less expensive than reservoirstoves as here .i5

tofore made, and permits the use of a larger reservoir in the same space. The water is heated at the same time the oven is being heated.

My improvements are applicable to any cook-stove of the character described, as all that is necessary is to cut the opening h and put in the inclined plate k. The extensionA may then be applied. The draft, instead oi' passing direct from the iiue f to the outlet g, Will then be directed through the opening It into the extension and under and around the reservoir therein. noticed, is suspended within the extensioaand there are no tortuous flues around the same for the collection of soot and ashes. The inclination of plate k causes soot and ashes to slip down to the iiuef, from which they may be readily removed in the usual manner.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination, with an ordinary bottomflue stove having an opening, It, in its back platea', in line with fluef, and aplate, k, above the same, of the extension A, secured to or formed on the back end of the stove, and a reservoir suspended in the said extension, a space being formed between the extension and the sides and bottom of the reservoir whereby the products of combustion, instead ofpassing direct from the iiuefto the outlet, as in an ordinary stove, maybe directed through open` ing h, under plate lc, around the reservoir, and out through passage Z'above the plate 7c, substantiall y as set forth.'

JAMES HARVEY HUNTER, WILLIAM A. PORTER.

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